478 Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

The greatest challenge in art is in dealing with disappointment.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.

As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.